I assume you've already tried restarting the client?

Isn't it just SO frustrating when you overlook the supposedly obvious?

I've been there before!

Not so fast LM! Yes, you can sort on one column or another but once you start sorting, you can't stop. Try to "un-sort" - you can't. BOINCManager does not sort on any specific column - no arrows - to start with. However, once you click on a column and sort on it, you can't turn it off. All you can do is sort on a different column.

keithhenry has a very valid point, though it's a little hard to tie down (and my knowledge is only sketchy). It seems to me that, if the client is not in panic mode (and therefore processing in deadline order) then it will process in arrival order, and that order is the order that is originally shown. BUT that arrival time information is not shown in any of the columns in the UI. That means that, once you sort on any of the columns, you cannot get back to that original order.

Personally I leave mine sorted on deadline (once I've accidentally clicked on a heading, which I always do eventually), but I do find it odd that tasks with the same deadline do not always start in the order shown. I assume that that is because some of them arrived fractionally before the others, but that that information has been 'lost' in the sort.

Frustrating.

Also, you cannot specify a sort of column A within column B, as some UIs allow. But what the heck, it all comes out in the wash.

Happy New Year!

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Apis: A bee. I keep honey bees. It can also be seed as APIs, Application Programming Interfaces. I'm a chartered IT professional.

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(You were supposed to try to work that out for yourself, but it's a long while since I explained it here so I guess it was overdue.)